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Happy Savages: What We Did to the Marshall Islanders

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Robert Koehler - Feb. 16 (Review) - Robert C. Koehler "Thirty seconds to zero . . . six, five, four, three, two, one." "Castle Bravo" -- Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954 Suddenly a big orange blossom fills the screen, accompanied by ukuleles and lovely — I mean Strangelovian — Polynesian music. The blossom is actually Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, the largest U.S. test ever, detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. read ...

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Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Noam Chomsky - Oct. 18 (Speech) - MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. "I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been released a long time ago. But there’s something missing from this whole story. There’s no pictures of Palestinian women, and no discussion, in fact, in the story of—what about the Palestinian prisoners being released?

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"Granito: How to Nail a Dictator": New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Sep. 15 (Review) - A new documentary links Guatemala’s turbulent past with those who are active players in its present.

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U.N. Gaza Inquiry Panelist Desmond Travers Challenges Goldstone's Recantation of Key Finding

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 20 (Interview) - Last month Judge Richard Goldstone, the chair of the United Nations' inquiry into the Israel’s 2008-2009 assault on the Gaza Strip, retracted his key finding that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians in its three-week assault. Israel, with backing of the United States, seized on Goldstone's comments and called for the United Nations to withdraw the report. Goldstone came under criticism from his co-panelists who co-authored the original report. We speak to one of those panelists, Col. Desmond Traver, a retired Irish soldier and peace-keeper.

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Living with the Enemy

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Guernica - By Susie Linfield - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - “Reconciliation” has become a darling of political theorists, journalists, and human-rights activists, especially as it pertains to the rebuilding of postwar and post-genocidal nations... Yet there is sometimes a disturbing glibness when outsiders tout the wonders of reconciliation, as if they are leading the barbarians from darkness into light. Even worse, the phenomenological realities—the human truths—of the victims’ experiences are often ignored or, at best, treated as pathologies that should be “worked through” until the promised land of forgiveness is reached. This is not just a mistake but a dangerous one; for it is doubtful that any sustainable peace, and any sustainable politics, can be built without a better, which is to say a tragic, understanding of those truths.

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Noam Chomsky on Israel and the Gaza Flotilla Attack: "Sheer Criminal Aggression, with no Credible Pretext"

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - By Sarah Macaraeg, Noam Chomsky - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - Professor Noam Chomsky, renowned foreign policy analyst and bestselling author of Hegemony and Survival and most recently of Hopes and Prospects (Haymarket Books) offered the following statement to Egypt's Al-Ahram regarding Israel's justification for it's attack on humanitarian aid boats headed for Gaza and the broader context regarding the economic blockade which the activists aboard the ships were attempting to break.

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Harvard Professor's Shocking Proposal: Starve the Palestinians in Gaza into Having Fewer Babies

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Juan Cole - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Martin Kramer revealed his true colors at the Herzliya Conference, wherein he blamed political violence in the Muslim world on population growth, called for that growth to be restrained, and praised the illegal and unconscionable Israeli blockade of civilian Gazans for its effect on reducing the number of Gazans

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Fate of Planet Rests on Mass Movement for Climate Justice

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein - Dec. 11 (Speech) - Hundreds of activists from across the globe are gathering every day in downtown Copenhagen for the people’s climate summit, the Klimaforum. On Thursday night, Shock Doctrine author and journalist Naomi Klein addressed a packed hall at a panel on ecological debt and climate justice.

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You can Stop War

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

current.com - By Jon Raymond - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams, and Nick Út's photo of a naked girl running with her clothes burned off by napalm. We were so outraged by these photos that we pressured our government to get out of Vietnam.

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Yo, America, The Jig is Up

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

stopwar.lafilmonline.com - By Jon Raymomd - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - The United States of America was founded as a racist, sexist, classicist, bigoted nation. From the start, our government only recognized wealthy white male landowners as having a voice in government. Yet their words in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution declared all “men” as equal.

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Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Foreign policy analyst Chris Nelson described the imbroglio as a reflection of the “deadly power game on what level of support for controversial Israeli government policies is a ‘requirement’ for U.S. public office.” Before the flip-flop on Freeman was announced, Nelson warned, “If Obama surrenders to the critics and orders Blair to rescind the Freeman appointment, it is difficult to see how he can properly exercise leverage, when needed, in his conduct of policy in the Middle East. That, literally, is how the experts see the stakes in the fight now under way” — the fight that is now over.

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Charles Freeman fails the loyalty test

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - In the U.S., you can advocate torture, illegal spying, and completely optional though murderous wars and be appointed to the highest positions. But you can't, apparently, criticize Israeli actions too much or question whether America's blind support for Israel should be re-examined.

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Another round of bloodletting

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Jan. 06 (Opinion) - Act two of the Gaza slaughter has begun. Death from above now continues on the ground. Overwhelming firepower from tanks, artillery and aircraft are killing women and children indiscriminately. Reports speak of civilians cowering inside as battles rage, terrified residents in other areas fleeing in fear, the windows of the house being blown out, people living without electricity, surviving without heat and eating cold food.

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Factor human rights into Gaza crisis

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

al.com - By David Gespass - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - I am proud of my Jewish heritage. I know that we have been victims just because we are Jewish. But to me, when we say "Never again!" we cannot mean that never again will we accept Jewish suffering. It must mean never again will we permit a people to suffer persecution because of race, religion or ethnic identity. Today, it pains me to acknowledge, the state of Israel is betraying everything about my heritage in which I take pride. Even more painful, the country of my birth is its principal enabler.

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'The Worst Place'

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - Dec. 22 (Editorial) - The Congo war is killing tens of thousands of people per month and is widely believed to be the world's gravest humanitarian emergency. For that reason alone, we in the West should be doing everything possible to end it.

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Print: The New Humanitarian Order

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Mahmood Mamdani - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - Human rights fundamentalists argue for an international legal standard regardless of the political context of the country in question. Their point of view is bolstered by the widespread and understandable popular outrage, not just in the West but throughout Africa, against the impunity with which a growing number of regimes have been resorting to slaughter to brutalize their populations into silence. The realization that the ICC has tended to focus only on African crimes, and mainly on crimes committed by adversaries of the United States, has introduced a note of sobriety into the African discussion, raising concerns about a politicized justice and wider questions about the relationship between law and politics.

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The War We Don't Know

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Mark Ames - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - While Russia and America see the conflict in abstract terms about spheres of influence and protecting allies, for Ossetians, who still recall the centuries of massacres Georgians committed against them, it is highly personal. They will still recall the Georgian massacres in the early 1920s, when Georgia was briefly independent, which exterminated up to 8 percent of the Ossetian population.

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for the children

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

WordPress - By J. Michels (myself) - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - Despite good intentions, the only real products of the drug war have been crack, meth and terrorism (not to mention gang violence, overcrowded prisons, deepening racism...) Statistics have proven that the billions spent fighting this war have never impacted either supply or demand, instead we have created a black market that undermines the very freedom of this country. What the children need are adults who act responsibly, they need to grow up in a country where the laws are just. By enacting sensible drug policy, as proposed by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.leap.cc), we will open the door to a much better future for our children and ourselves...

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Vote for Change? Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officials Advising Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Allan Nairn, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Amy Goodman - Jan. 03 (Interview) - Investigative journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative Correspondent Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discuss a little-addressed facet of the 2008 campaign: many of the top advisers to leading presidential candidates are ex-U.S. officials involved in atrocities around the world.

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Let the Americans Try and Stop Us! ...

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:17:49 -0700

Hurriyet - By Ertugrul Ozkok - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - Yes, we must now address Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish regional authority in northern Iraq. We need to deliver this final message to him in the strongest fashion possible: "You have two paths before you. Either you will be our neighbor, or our target."

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Genocide: An inconvenient truth

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:03:20 -0700

Salon - By Gary Kamiya - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - The genocide was not carried out by the Republic of Turkey, which did not exist yet, but by the ruling party in the final years of the collapsing Ottoman regime. To this day the Turkish government has never acknowledged that what transpired was a monstrous and intentional crime against humanity. Instead, it claims that the Armenians were simply unfortunate victims of a chaotic civil war, that only 300,000 to 600,000 died, that Turks actually died in greater numbers, and that the Armenians brought their fate on themselves by collaborating with the Russians.

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